Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The G. Norton Jameson Annex at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls. (John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight) The G.

When Monica Cosby, Tyteanna Williams and Celia Colon talk about the years they spent as inmates at women's prisons in Illinois, their stories often turn to the times they would be disciplined for what ...

Like most other institutions, prisons cannot run on repression alone. Prisoners’ conformity to the rules doesn’t come solely at the end of a baton: there needs to be a carrot as well as a stick. The ...

When prison inmates break the rules, they may be placed in solitary confinement—sometimes for 24, 48 or 72 hours. Although it is frequently criticized, disciplinary segregation is still widely used in ...

The Maine Department of Corrections has opted to continue its policy that allows staff to punish incarcerated people before and regardless of a finding of guilt, underscoring the discretion that ...

A Kentucky prison inmate says she faces punishment for writing a story in a national publication that criticized the state Department of Corrections for discriminating against female inmates in ...

Report finds an ongoing racial imbalance in prison discipline, but avoids pointing to racial bias among correctional staff as the sole reason for the disparity Exterior of the Coxsackie Correctional ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Every morning, 53 prison inmates woke up to bright lights and the sound of chow at 4:30 a.m. A small fraction rubbed groggy eyes, put on ...